The Cokeys and the Ballast Hills are things familiar with that place south of the Tyne we know as Hebburn.

But there are many other things this town is known for, both famous and infamous.

So here are 17 things you will probably recognise if you live, were raised, or worked in Hebburn.

1. The Claps. Although this 1860s pub had a series of names in its history, including the Hebburn Hall Hotel, the Argyle Hotel, the Ramada and The Roadhouse, it was universally known as Claps after one of its long-serving landlords called Clapperton. It was recently demolished.

2. The County Hotel became Hebburn’s first disco with ultra violet light, under which the beer looked green. It probably really was green. Later it was bizarrely renamed Martha’s Vineyard.

3. The coke ovens, a coke-producing plant known as The Cokeys, whose flare stack could be seen for miles and was only rivalled every four years by the Olympic games. Astonishingly, a council house estate was built on its doorstep, pollution and all.

Homes for 2,500 will spring up on 'Death Lakes' - a view of Hebburn Lakes, taken from near Campbell Park Road, shows the man-made ponds - a reminder of an industrial age. From May 1959

4. Spuggies’ Bridge. Another neighbour of The Cokeys, spanning a rail line and at which trainspotting kids would gather to see the “Four o’clock Namer” locomotive. It was always Red Gauntlet.

5. The Ballast Hills on the Tyne riverbank, created by incoming ships dumping their ballast before taking on cargo, mainly coal. A vantage point to watch ship launches such as the Esso Northumbria.

6. Hebburn Hall Ponds, large expanses of water known as The Lakes. Created to supply water for industry, they became wildlife havens, from swans and sticklebacks to crayfish and freshwater mussels. Drained in the 1960s.

Boer War memorial, Hebburn Park

7. The cannon at Hebburn Park war memorial. ‘Fired’ daily at imaginary invaders by every kid who passed by.

8. The listed Hebburn – or Ellison – Hall, originally dating from the 17th century, and remodelled in 1790 to include 80 rooms. Later became an infirmary, a freemasons’ club and then an aparthotel. The town’s major landmark.

This picture was taken at the gates of Hawthorn Leslie in Hebburn at the end of a shift, early-mid 20th Century

9. Hawthorn Leslie shipyard, founded in 1853 by Andrew Leslie, son of a crofter evicted from his holding in the Shetlands. The yard built everything from liners and tankers to warships – including 41 naval vessels during the Second World War and repaired another 120.

Leslie largely funded the building of the town’s St Andrew’s Church, whose tall and slender spire is a Tyneside landmark.

10. The destroyer HMS Kelly, the most famous of the yard’s warships, and commanded by Lord Louis Mounbatten, was commissioned just weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War. She was torpedoed off Norway in 1940 and survived an epic 92-hour tow back to Hebburn. Sunk in 1941 off Crete.

Her story formed the basis of the 1942 film In Which We Serve, starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and Noel Coward as the captain. Remembered in the town by the Kelly pub, Kelly Avenue and Mountbatten Avenue.

Reyrolle's factory workers, Hebburn, on strike in 1970

11. Reyrolles factory, founded by Frenchman Alphonse Reyrolle who arrived on Tyneside in 1901, employing 58 staff. By 1964 its workforce totalled 10,000.

12. The first trial of a Sir Humphry Davy’s miners’ safety lamp with a wire sieve was at Hebburn Colliery on January 9, 1816.

13. Tennant Street and Station Road, home to a myriad variety of characterful shops in the days before the arrival of the concrete shopping centre.

14. Avenues built after the First World War and named after battles such as Jutland, Mons and Verdun.

15. The Gem cinema and its later rival The Rex. This created a local sensation by being built without a conventional upstairs section. Instead it featured a rising tier at the back of the auditorium like a football terrace.

16. Argyle Street, where the bookies’ and backyard loo scene in Get Carter was filmed.

Simpson's Hotel, Hebburn

17. Simpson’s Hotel. The hotel bit was an overstatement, as Simpson’s was a large hostel for men.